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Preface of the Editor.

Heinrich Khunrath, who calls himself in his writings Doctor of both Medicines and lover of divine wisdom, and is also counted by others among the Leipzig professors, as G. Arnold found in a chemical manuscript (see his History of Churches and Heretics), lived around the year 1575, that is, around the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century. He was, says Fictuld in his Probierstein Touchstone, a highly learned and God-loving man who had great gifts and insights into theology, theosophy, and hermetic philosophy, such that he was devoted to alchemy already in the 23rd year of his age, and as he recounts of himself in the preface of his Confession and elsewhere, had reached his ultimate goal, namely the great secret of the universal. He has, continues Fictuld, written so clearly of alchemy that it would hardly have been possible to be clearer,